[Magdalen] Update - ws Re: Please, please pray.

[Judy Fleener]

Praying for you today, Mike.


On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 6:17 AM, marionthompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm in England at the moment and bright people have got me my email 150 0f
> them to work
> Even from this distance and time lag you and  your plight are not
> forgotten.  I do pray that you will find the right words and will weather
> whatever storm there may be.  Courage!   You are not alone.
> Marion,  a pilgrim
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> Date:22-07-2018  2:55 PM  (GMT-05:00)
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Cc:
> Subject: [Magdalen] Update - ws Re:  Please, please pray.
>
> >>>Is there any way that any of us can help? Other than by letting you
> know
> we are listening?<<<
>
> I want to thank everyone for their responses and assurances of remembering
> me in this time of need.  I want to especially thank my local friend Brian
> for his comment quoted above.  Just knowing someone's listening (obviously,
> a lot are listening) is all that can really be offered in terms of help.
> But that certainly means a lot.  I can't stress that enough.
>
> Thursday my boss set up a meeting first thing Monday morning to discuss
> "work tasks".  (I do hate the words "task" and "tasks".  Assignments, yes,
> but tasks?  That implies a taskmaster, and in a public workplace, or any
> workplace, in my opinion, that's dicey from the get-go.)  Maybe what little
> bit I absorbed from the late 60s and throughout the 70s infected me with
> the belief there should never be an Overlord and Prole scenario.  Oh well.
> In reply, via remote access to my email and calendar, I accepted the
> meeting with the statement that my Union representative would be present at
> all meetings until further notice.  Almost immediately, she wrote back that
> the meeting was being canceled and re-scheduled to involve others present
> also (all Executive, and certainly not including those who are "on my side"
> -- "quotes" because they can't weigh in in any form as I'm not in their
> chain of command).  Now happening on Tuesday afternoon, which gives me and
> my Union rep more time to prepare.  Topic is "Workload and assignments",
> but it could easily include many other issues, which I and Union rep need
> to have a script ready for.  We will.  Including the guaranteed (via MOU)
> right to step out of the room and consult before answering a question, many
> of which questions may be "taken under advisement" with answers coming
> later.  Advice so far is to do more listening than talking.  That's
> difficult for me.
>
> Two big issues, both personal, remain for me.  What turned her against me
> so?  And, what with all my work for the last decade or more having been
> taken from me and given to fellow employees she has nothing but praise for
> (for now, says me), ... I've more or less lost what kept me going all these
> years, ie, "interest" in the work, if not actual enjoyment.  I at least
> found it interesting enough to shine and be well-regarded by the public
> that I've interacted with for so many years.  Now, put honestly, I can't
> seem to muster enough interest to care anymore.  Quit?  Sure.  But with no
> safety net yet, it wouldn't be a good idea.  Plus, she'd win (which I'm not
> exactly against, since I think she wants me out anyway, but with no safety
> net, etc).  I've actually got a question in with my old boss, whom she
> replaced, and with whom I didn't always have the best relationship, but, as
> they say, my worst day with him wasn't as bad as my best day with, ... etc.
>
> Tomorrow's kind of a limbo, with acidic criticism always possible, and,
> these days, expected.  I also expect to come in and find the assignment I
> was working on Thursday when I had to go home, gone, with probably nothing
> to effectively do until the next day.  I always bring a book.
>
> I've got some research to do in regard to my timecards now, accessible
> remotely to my great surprise, in regards to my time over the last couple
> years, so I'll bid you all adieu, for  the time being.
>
> And, once again, thanks.
>
> Mike.
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
Western Michigan